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Product Description Emerson, Stephen Review "Emerson is capable of inventing fictional occasions of strong impact in the space of one or two pages... Neighbors is a book full of articulation, with a strong tendency towards the comical, towards those kinds of recognitions that would address despair and disillusion, if they were not so intensely funny.... [The stories] reach us with unerring accuracy... No one with a serious interest in the state of American fiction should ignore them." --Doug Lang, Washington Review From the Back Cover Steve Emerson notices everything. At the center of his style there is always some detail which, when uncurled, reveals the story in its veins. That detail might be anything: a word that cuts across the room like a paper airplane, the self-defining habit of a body in its calculated struggle with gravity, or a slightly dangerous Brazilian waving a loaded Phillips screwdriver at a shocking pink house in Key West. But one of the great pleasures in reading Neighbors is the reflexion woven through the fabric of Emerson's human company. A gallery of marvellous pictures. --Edward Dorn